September 27, 2023

54th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council Panel Discussion on Cyberbullying against children

As Pope Francis has said, too often “Bullying is a phenomenon of self compensation, self-assessment, not of finding myself, but of decreasing the other to feel better.” In order to address this distorted approach to human relationships, it is necessary to be aware that the other person is a valuable member of the one human family, my brother or sister. “Our life becomes more human insofar as its nature becomes less individual and more personal; we see this authentic path of becoming more human in one who moves from being an individual who perceives the other as a rival, to a person who recognizes others as travelling companions.” The fight against cyberbullying starts here.

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